GEAR THERAPY: Elite Football Player Gets Back into Skiing

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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When it comes to gear, we’ve all been there: loads of questions, crippling confusion, severe analysis paralysis. You need some help! So in this edition of GEAR THERAPY, BLISTER+ member, Pete Brantley, talks about getting back into skiing and playing football for the Oregon Ducks (and Chicago Bears!). Then he poses his most-pressing gear questions, and gets Jonathan’s best recommendations.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

Pete’s Story & ‘Hot Dog… The Movie’ (4:15)

Football: Oregon Ducks & Chicago Bears (21:45)

Pete’s Crashes & Close Calls Story (30:47)

Gear Therapy Begins (35:53)

Atomic Maverick 95 (37:38)

Chamonix / New Blister Guide to Chamonix (44:28)

JE's Recommendations (47:37)

Backcountry Skiing (1:12:56)

Ski Boots & Ski Bags (1:13:53)

Custom Footbeds (1:20:34)

Our reviews & Pete’s Gear Purchases (1:27:02)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network, where we are very proudly
0:10.3	based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado.
0:15.9	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and of course, as always, you can check out everything we're doing
0:23.3	and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:29.3	Today we are back with another episode of Gear Therapy, where we answer the most pressing
0:35.1	gear questions from one of our Blister Plus members.
0:38.8	And on the gear therapy couch today is Pete Brantley, who has a great story.
0:44.3	Pete was an accomplished outside linebacker at the University of Oregon,
0:48.7	and he also had a tryout with the Chicago Bears.
0:53.1	So you know I had to ask him about that. And then after Pete's
0:57.7	football career wrapped up and he got into triathlons and some years passed, well, Pete
1:03.4	rediscovered skiing recently and fell in love with it hard. So over these past couple of years,
1:10.5	it's been really fun exchanging messages with Pete,
1:13.4	but this Gear 30 episode was our first time getting to kind of talk face to face.
1:19.2	And once we finally get into the personalized gear recommendations part of this conversation,
1:24.1	you'll get a pretty good idea of the email exchanges we have with
1:29.4	our Blister Plus members. So if you have some gear questions that you'd like us to answer,
1:36.0	well, then you just become a Blister Plus member. You can send us an email through our member
1:41.3	clubhouse, and then our team of reviewers will help you out.
1:47.1	This episode is brought to you by a place that is near and dear to my heart, Touse Ski Valley.
1:53.9	Touse is home to some of my favorite skiing, literally anywhere, and it is tucked away deep in the rocky
2:00.3	mountains of northern New Mexico.
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